Simple Pig Pen
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Our pigs will soon be on the farm and this will be their temporary enclosure until we can expand and make a more permanent home for them with more room to roam. This video shows a time lapse of how we put it together.
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I build mine without doors but make one panel that is removable. But I get in and out of the hog pins with a swimming pool ladder. All 3 of my pins are different but I’m going to build new pins that are uniform and all in 1 spot.
Hey guys! Sounds like you have a solid plan. We still use a small door on our expanded pens when they're young, but once they're closer to processing we move them into a pen that has no open panels. This ensures we don't have them tearing through it when they're 200+ lbs.
How big did you make that pen? Im making mine soon, and was wondering what square footage you used. Thank you
Hey Kara. This one was 16'X16' (the size of a standard pig panel squared). We did expand it after this to 3X that size to give the pigs more space. I'll link the update video we did earlier this year with the specs on that.
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I know you moved , but did you have flood irrigation ? Holes at bottom of wall(block on its side).
Actually, those holes are for drainage (I think they're referred to as weep holes or something similar). We did have the fenced area flood a few times and that allowed the water to drain out and away from the wall.
Pigs don’t jump. Yea right. I thought that too til I seen ours jump over the 3 1/2ft fence.
It's funny, we've had several folks share that experience with us and after raising dozens and dozens of finisher pigs have not had a single one jump this fencing....as I'm knocking on wood and crossing my fingers!! 😂😂
I have two 250-300-pound hogs, do you recommend using the t-posts for the project?
We are finishing 20 pigs this year and just sent the first 5 to the processor last week. All finished right around 200lbs (2 near 215) hanging weight, so in that same range as yours in live weight. All are kept in pens that use only t-posts and cattle panel. One caveat, or ground is VERY hard, so t-posts don't pull out on their own here. If your ground is really soft, you may need to reduce the amount of space between posts.
My mini pig jumps. She can get over a 3 ft fence. She jumps up on the couch too. We had to build a wooden enclosure and it's working great.
Hey Rhonda. Oh my goodness, 3 feet! That's amazing. When we get these "feeder breeds" in they're already 40 lbs or so, so they run fast but definitely don't jump more than maybe a foot at the most. How big is your mini?
I’ve seen 150 pound pigs get over 4 foot tall fences.
Dustin, that would be something to see. I can't imagine one of our feeders clearing the fence, but if a predator was trying to take one out I would hope they could clear it to get away from the threat. Amazing animals.
I'd like to think vid being 5yrs old you've come to have a much larger area for better quality of life.
Yes, they are one of many reasons we sold this property and are now on 6 acres vs 1.
New Jersey Indoor Gardner seen me your way . Great content 🤗🌍
Hey guys! Glad you found us and are enjoying the content!
Aah, are you raising minipigs? Normal pigs will break that fence like a twig😁
No, we've only raised full size pigs in this pen (usually 2 at a time up to about 300 lbs each). We ran 7 pigs total through this pen setup and never had an issue. I know our hard ground helps out a lot as they can't dig under and the posts are literally driven into near solid rock! May be an issue for folks with softer soils I suppose.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I love how alot of comments are trying to bash your fence and you just keep slamming the truth on em...LOVE IT
@@lilbitofitall6764 They are called pig panels for a reason :) We have raised several rounds of pigs with the same fencing and as long as they a fully secured we have yet to have a problem. Thanks for the comment!
Great vid I breed pigs in Australia and they have a habit of digging I needed to lay something underneath the earth, even concreting the fence line wouldn’t work if they figured out to dig under it but thats only because the earth is soft in part of Australia.
Hey angelzhit. That is one advantage to our rock hard dirt. Even with the occasional heavy rain the pigs can't root more than a few inches deep before hitting hard clay again. What varieties of pigs do you breed?
pig do dig naturally...big time...
There is a fencing material called Electromesh that contains animals including pigs. It sets on top of the ground and they will not root under it. The reason why is that after the first time their snouts hit that electric fence they remember it and stay away. I know a few farmers who have successfully used it for a few years and it works.
Wish those hog panels were still about $25 lol
Boy is that ever true!
Those hog panels in Alberta are $89.99 in Canada. makes the $200 dollar pen $500 here.
My pigs would feel like I moved them into a 15 minute city if I put them in a little pen like that LOL
My goodness, that's just crazy. The panels are around $40 here these days, so nowhere near that still!
Oh, but pigs DO jump! We've had 300-lb boars clear a 4+ foot block wall like a dog would, without touching it. Good luck with 3-ft hog panels! But neat pen and good job on the video.
We've had several folks suggest the same, but we've raised dozens of them now and haven't had one attempt it yet. I suppose keeping them well fed and happy makes a difference in their desire to jump the fence!
Can't wait to get some mini pigs as pets in spring of next year yea!!
Hey Stephanie. This should work perfect for your little minis!
Stephanie Hickman good
Thanks again and for your help for this
Avahlyn
I've always heard to not use People, Pig, or Pet manure for composting. What have you found with it?
Great question. We don't plan on using this in our vegetable garden, but around our fruit trees in with the wood chips. From what I understand you need to give this up to a year to compost completely, so we're doing a quick compost just to make it easier to spread in with the woodchips around the trees when we fertilize. We'll have a video up showing how we spread this as a fruit tree fertilizer in the next week or so and we'll keep everyone updated on that as we go through the year.
Good job you guys. I'm looking forward to the next video. get excited !
Thanks Mike. We still have a few more in the hopper almost ready. Glad you like them!
Hi Duane & Good Orning to you & wife I see what you posted 1)2 Gpm but how often do you do you water them getting back to what I want to plant what variety of peach would work out for me ( yellow flesh free stone what variety on nectarine would be best to plant here where I live , thanks Gary
Except for Winter, we water all of our trees once/week and usually put anywhere from 60-90 gallons on each tree. As for free stone, yellow fleshed peaches your best bets are either Early Amber or Early Grande. We have not had a good producing nectarine, so I wouldn't be able to recommend one.
Hi edge of knowwhere farm I hair want to say thank you for alwasys guiding me with farming. Farming is my passion but I’m only 11 and already I have worked for 3 farms. Your doing so well with the farm and I hope to see some new great content. Also a quick question, how much would you make for selling a Yorkshire white for meat.
Wow, 11 years old and having worked on 3 farms already, that's very impressive! I'm glad we can help you get excited about farming and you have a great question with this one.
For us here in Arizona, being close the city and having higher prices than some other areas, we typically make anywhere from $300-$400 selling a whole pig like a Yorkshire (or Chester/Yorkshire mix). That's assuming you're using bagged feed and raising them to a hanging weight around 200 pounds. Live weight for that would be around 300 pounds.
Love your videos! Are you not concerned about predators jumping the wall? I am considering adding pigs to my little farm, too. Will you, at some point, cover? I live NE of Phoenix and we are concerned about bobcats and coyotes scaling our wall (they currently do exactly that) and attacking the piggies.
Hey Elizabeth, glad you like the videos. As for predators, we're not too concerned with the pigs. We have neighbors who keep pigs in similarly designed pens (without a block wall) and have had no issues. Just like you guys we have lots of coyotes and wild dogs around. I think their size helps (they're near 50 lbs now) and there are houses all around us that keep horses, goats, etc. We'll keep updating on their progress and keep our fingers crossed!!
add5ft or 6ft welded page wire attached to t posts out side your pen with room between the two fences and let it have some give when pressed against when up. I have countless problems with black labs that run loose in my area as well as tray cats. they've preyed on my chickens, ducks, and tormented my calves till I did this. since then all problems from them have gone away. plus, you can use it as a trellis for peas or beans
Hi Duane.. A few months ago we added our first pig, a mini pot belly and no matter what I do he diggs under the 3 feet deep fence I did like u have setup.. Any suggestions? I've used 2×4 to support the bottom and he gets that tore up to.. Ive used the trick with feeding him in the middle of the pin and carrying some treat in the middle so he will dig there instead but it doesn't work.. Please any suggestions!
Hey Cassandra. Wow, that little guys is really getting down there if you're 3' under. We've only had ours get near the fence once and we were able to redirect them by putting a log across that part of the fence (on the inside). Once they figured out they couldn't eat the log they moved on. Depending on the size of your pig it may work with cement blocks which we've used in other parts of the pen when their mud pit is heading towards the wall. Hope this helps!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank u .. Yes he is determined for sure.. Someone else told me to try cement blocks but I wasnt sure.. Another idea I was told was to take some fenceing and attach it to the wall fence and bring in down a few feet into the pin burried to they dig into that..
Cassandra Poe Yes, that would definitely work as well. Just a little more digging to trench it which is a pain, but keeping that little guy in is the goal right!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm lol yes sir..lol thank you!
my grandfather had pigs and all he used was an electric fence about a foot off the ground. One touch on that and they stayed away from it and didn't root there. Sounds like you have a smarter than average pig. Do like they do for zoo animals enrich his environment
The problem of this pig pen is when the pigs are going to dig under your fence cages
Hey Charles. Thanks for the comment! We have our 2nd round of pigs in there now and we haven't had any issues with either sets of pigs getting under the fence. However, our ground is VERY hard, so unless there's water sitting near the fence line we don't seem to be having an issue. If the ground is softer then it may pose a bigger problem for sure.
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I see, I guess its good design then thanks
Do you have a vid of building the door?
Hey Holly. No, we don't have a video on that, but we have completely abandoned making a door using pig paneling. Each time we've tried they wind up breaking through it! We use a chute design built onto one side of the pen for loading and unloading. I'll see if I can find a loading video for you here to give you an idea of what we do instead;
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Otherwise, we climb over the panel which is pretty easy for us to do.
Is there a video with you putting in the door
No and I wouldn't recommend putting in a door for standard/full size pigs. We no longer use a door for standard size pigs as they eventually push right through it. We still have an opening, but we firmly attach a hog panel across the opening, so they can't push through.
Pigs in orkney will lift a 3 ft thick 5 ft high stone wall with backs and ram through a electric fence.
Wow, those are some aggressive pigs. We haven't had any issues with the pigs getting through this fencing and we've sent several rounds through similar pens. For us we make sure to spend time with them to keep them tame and keep them well fed. That seems to do the trick. Then again, our ground is literally rock, so these t-posts are near impossible to remove even with a t-post pulling device.
For the record they do jump lol my 280 pound male pig can jump over his 5 ft fence
Man, that is just crazy! We ran 7 pigs through this one and never had one attempt it. I suppose we lucked out on that!
@Gus VanHorn hard to imagine something as sneaky as Congress!
They definitely jump.... I had a boy who used to jump a 5 foot wall to get out... he would launch himself up the wall until he got high enough to get his front legs over, then he would pull himself over....Then when we made it a bit higher, he would climb/shimmy up the corner to get out.... Pigs are certainly sneaky enough to be in politics 😂😂 maybe even cleverer than your average politician....
I have 2 potbelly pigs that will jump up on the fence like a dog jumps against a fence with its front feet. I’m not sure if this will continue to happen when they are bigger but it’s definitely something I will be taking into consideration when I build the new hog pins.
lol you paid money for a pole driver. You could weld one up with scrap metal around the yard. Im making a fence out of pallets that way I don't have to spend any money on my enclosure.
Conservative Macro, you're right on with the welding idea. Got a guy at work that's teaching me the basics on welding so I can do some simple repairs etc around the property. Will be especially useful on the new acreage. Thanks for the suggestion and send us some pics on your pallet fence.
Have your pigs dug out of this pen? We are having a huge problem with our pigs digging out.
Hey Melissa. The only issue we had was when they started digging their wallow close to the fence. We had another viewer suggest putting cut logs in the wallow near the fence and that deterred them to head another direction.
How many t post did you need?
Great question. We use 5 posts per panel with 4' between each post, so for this pen we used 15 posts. Bear in mind we had the block fence on the back side, so that would be another 5 posts if you enclose it on all 4 sides with pig paneling.
I could see you guys loosing piglets through the wall but I’m sure you already thought of of this and covered them up and for the pigs escaping comment could always add concrete in ground at fence line
Hey Thomas. Yes, you're right we do have them covered with 1/2" hardware cloth to make sure we don't have any little guys checking out the horses next door! Good call on the concrete under the fence line. We're fortunate to have concrete like dirt here in the desert Southwest, but it would definitely be challenging with softer soil. Thanks for the comment!
“Pigs don’t jump” um yeah… mine does. That’s why I’m researching better fencing 😬
Hey Julie. It's funny, because we use this exact same setup on a larger scale now and have raised dozens of pigs (multiple breeds) with no issues. Maybe it's the heat! Hopefully you'll find just the right setup for what you need.
Pigs can jump up to 4 ft I seen it pisses me off but lesson learned
with this setup, are you concerned about your hugs digging under the fence at all?
That's a great question. So here in AZ our ground is extremely hard. Even when it rained we would have the pigs digging holes, but never deep enough to get completely under the fencing. In some areas you may need to bury the fencing a few inches underground to keep them from getting under it. Spacing of the t-posts can be changed to help keep the fence in place when pigs try to dig underneath. We would also place tree stumps into holes that were near the fencing (when it was raining and muddy) to help redirect their rooting.
What breed do you raise, did I miss that?
Hey Katey. We've raised several different breeds at this point. Berkshire, Hampshire, Yorkshire, Hereford, Poland Spot, Chester White and crosses of several of those. We use a very similar pen still today, just expanded to fit more pigs.
How many pigs was your original 16’x16’ for?
Hey Lisa. Originally we had 2 pigs in this space, but after those first 2 we quickly realized that was not near enough space for us to be comfortable with, so we tripled the space after the first round.
Hi, the video is 4 years old now but I'm hoping to get some advice anyway. I'm building a 20 x 40 foot electric fence pen and I was wondering if you know about how many pigs I could comfortably raise in there? I don't want to overcrowd the pen. Thanks in advance!
Hey James. We're currently raising 13 pigs in a 32X48 pen and they have plenty of space to run around. We'll move them onto new land twice with this spacing, but that's just to cut down on the impact they're having on the land. They really beat up the landscape when left on the same piece of land for any significant amount of time.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I see, that helps me out a lot. When moving pigs off of the land that they’ve been on for a while, how much time would you give that land to recover before you start using it as a pigpen again?
@@jamesstrickland8696 we're on a larger piece of land now compared to what you're seeing in this video. However, we ran 3 separate sets of pigs on this same space over 2 years. If you're only keeping the space for pigs you would be able to use the same space each season. Many folks do just that. We use them now as the first till on raw land and then prep and plant behind them. Eventually we'll keep them in a defined space each season, but we'll still factor some rotation into that just to keep things sanitary.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks so much for your help
@@jamesstrickland8696 sure thing. Good luck with your pen!
Can you tell me the measurements of the panels?
Hi there! These panels are 16 feet long and just under 3 feet wide. We got them from Tractor Supply.
Avahlyn is doing well today
Ok Amanda, you're gonna have to let us know who Avahlyn is?? :)
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Thanks Aman. We've expanded it, but this basic design is still working well for us.
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Can pigs dig a hole and get out of the enclosure?
Hey Anand. Here in AZ we have very hard, almost rock like soil. The pigs will try to dig everywhere, but for us they were not able to get under the fencing (we put 3 rounds of pigs through this type of enclosure with no escapees). If your soil is softer you may need to submerge part of the fencing or space your Tposts closer together so they can't wiggle their way underneath it. If you're using traditional breeds for production by the time they are strong enough to dig deep they may be too big to actually dig out from this completely.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you!
It's oct. 25, 2018 and I dought I'll get a response but could you tell me dementions and how to on the wooden pig shelter in this pen?
Hey Aron! This original pig pen was 16' X 16' (the size of your standard pig panels). The shelter is about 4' deep and 6' wide. It tapers from 4' high at the front to about 3' at the back to move water away from the entrance. We didn't film a how to on the shelter, so sorry I can't give more detail on it. We did expand this enclosure and it's now 16' X 48' to give them more space. Hope this helps!
thank you for the information and keep up the quality informative vids. I subscribed
Hey Aron, thanks for the encouragement and the sub. We're working on expanding onto 6 acres next year, so we have a lot of content coming up as we turn raw desert land into a working farm. Glad you're here!
I try to find all the help I can and ideas on UA-cam for my starter farm. I'm in NW Pennsylvania. Pigs are my newest addition. My farming goal is breeding and resale but, I'm not afraid of raising some animals for meat. I am limited to what I can do here currently. I have 2.2 acres and not all of it can be used for farming. Plus, we get cold like you get heat. I can relate I'm also not the most handy of people, but basic rules I go by are, use one tape measure threw out a project, measure twice cut once, and use a strait edge. Also a tip, garden hose works very well to lay out strait rows be it trees or fence lines.
Could you imagine if pigs jumped.
We've had folks tell us they do and apparently do it readily, but we've never had a pig try to jump over the panels before.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Mine barely walk .
@@slamboy66 they must be big boys.
September 2nd 2018 is when I'm watching lol
Hey Laci. Glad you found us!
2019 lol
@@grindgaming242 2020 ! the beat goes on ....
I will imitate this for my pigs
Hey Shon! It really works good for small spaces. Simple and easy!
I will like to have like that pigs
But I have 6 sow,piglets at fatteners